Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

Library details: Biblioteca Central Pedro Zulen is an Academic library. This library is affiliated with Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (view map)
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The collection of the library contains 450,000 volumes. The library serves a population of 45,000 FTE Enrollment.

Other Info: The Central Library (BCPZ) has no branches, but there are several faculty libraries. The UNMSM system is struggling to be integrated, a reachable goal. The BCPZ works under incredible conditions, in spite that the UNMSM has the main librarian school in the country. These are in the BCPZ website: no material is supossed to leave the library, no home lending. Students can use only one volume at a time, and for a limited max time of three hours. No school students are admited due to limited material availability. And the property rights are broken every day: commercial copiers have a site inside the library, as a mean to help students with little resources, instead of looking improvement through more imaginative solutions and investment. This university is considered the oldest in America, north and south. This a public university funded by the government, there is no tuitions to be paid.

Record History: This listing was created on Aug 16, 2009 and was last modified on Jan 2, 2018.

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